After seven months of comprehensive development, the popular Unix software packaging tool RPM Package Manager (RPM) was released as stable version 5.0.0. This version builds portably on a wide variety of Unix platforms and includes initial support for XAR as a package format, among other features.
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Member since:2006-03-14
Redhat could always change their minds. They have shown that they are not averse to doing so in the past (see inclusion of mono).
If it turns out to be much better, whilst maintaining compatibility with older rpms, then it is not inconceivable that they could adopt it.
Member since:2005-07-24
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Redhat could always change their minds. They have shown that they are not averse to doing so in the past (see inclusion of mono).
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There is no mono in RedHat. Perhaps you are thinking of Fedora.
At any rate, it would be a mistake, and a step backwards, to allow such a critical component to be controlled by such an uncooperative developer. There was a reason that RedHat terminated Mr. Johnson. And there was a reason that Fedora spearheaded forking the project.
The XFree86->Xorg fork, painful as it was, has proven highly beneficial. In the same way, I believe that this fork will also result in long term benefits to the community.
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2006-08-01
> will Mandriva, Novell/OpenSUSE and Red Hat/Fedora use it?
No.